April 13, 2008 - Part Dos - My Evening Creations!!!

Well I promised I would post the rest of what I got done tonite and I feel pretty accomplished!!! So, I showed you the journal already and the rest of the Post It Note keychains. Now I need to show you...................

The clock made by special request from my Mom for a friend - lighting doesn't do it justice but I was too lazy to take a 2nd pic!!! LOL



These darling little rings I've started making - believe it or not the flowers are supposed to be purple and the dots green but the lighting to take the pics make them look black!!! GGGGRRRR LOL



And finally..............

drumroll please..............

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A custom ordered altered baby boardbook by Bo Bunny - I really love how this one turned out!!!!



Well, thanks for stopping by and checking out my stuff. Leave me some love if you like what you see - if not, well, still leave me a message but leave out the bad things....LOL

Over and out ya'll..............

March 13, 2008

I think Spring is full force in central Texas now!!! Just gorgeous weather again today!!!

Our company flew back home to Oregon today. It was a very pleasant and relaxing visit. So glad that Joe and Carmin could come out and see the kids and hang out with us this week. The house was so quiet and calm today though after they left!!!

I had a couple people ask me about the inside of the Baby boardbook I posted a couple days ago so here it is:



I gave it to Joe and Carmin for their son who just had a baby and they loved it. They couldn't wait to get home and put pictures in it!!!

Last night I managed to complete an 8x8 album that I'm going to sell. It turned out cute I think. It is themed for a girl either from birth or at a young age growing. I love the color combo on it and can't wait to do another (working on one tonite with dif papers). I'm hoping to sell this one pretty quickly - otherwise it will sit on my shelf of completed items that I won't use.

Here is the album I did last night, it has a front page that doesn't really leave room for pics or journaling and then 17 pages for pics/journaling:



Tonite I'm working on setting up papers for another book - I'm trying to decide if it is better to buy 12x12 papers and cut down to size or to use 8x8 papers and cut down to size. In my head 12x12 papers should work better but looking at it on paper it seems like a lot of wasted paper from the 12x12 papers especially when I want to use like 5 of one style and don't need any of the scraps after cutting the 8x8 out. Still trying to make sense of all it by drawing it all out and marking off what I'd cut off the 12x12's and then the 8x8's. Then the other obstacle is most papers come in 12x12 or 8.5x11 unless you can get them in the paper pads then you gotta make sure enough of each pattern comes in the pack or you have to buy two packs then I'm not really making money when I sell them - not that I'm gonna make a ton of money on each album as it is..............anywho, I'm just rambling trying to get it all straight in my head......LOL

Over and out ya'll, I got an album to work on!!! Happy Scrappin'!!!!

March 8, 2008

Another gorgeous day here in Austin, TX!!!! I'm glad to be feeling a bit better - I've been really fighting a heck of a want to be cold and spent more time in bed sleeping than anything else. I still have an off and on cough and some silly intermittent congestion but nothing a squirt up the nose of Zicam doesn't help!!!

On another note, it's been a rough couple weeks emotion wise and I think I might actually be getting past all the turmoil in my life and finding my happy spot again!!! I scrapped today so that was a good start!!!

Woke up this morning and made a quick card to take over to Felicia's Scrapbooks for a Marvy Uchida punch contest she was having.

This is the card:


I also submitted a card I made in the MMFY Survivor contest that I just loved, this one:



While at Felicia's she asked if I would be interested in teaching some classes - I thought that was pretty cool. I'm weighing my options with my schedule of work and the kids to see what I can do. I'd love to get out and teach a class a week and mingle with other scrappy ladies!!!

Cait and I stopped at Hobby Lobby to pick up a couple albums for books I have to custom make (they were 50% off through today) and then stopped at Archiver's - I swear that place is EVIL!!! We picked up some of the new Heidi Grace papers - OMG they are so yummy. Cait got some of the new K&Co. papers too - I started to get them but want to see what she does with them, they are just darling!!! I've bought so much girly themed stuff lately I'm trying to go with darker or more jewel toned colors in the stuff I buy for a little while.

I did get another Baby boardbook finished. This one is for a family member who had a baby on Christmas Day.



So, I got two scrappy things done today, some shopping that didn't need to be done and some quality time with Cait. She's growing so fast so I treasure every chance we get to go out and do girl things!!!

Over and out ya'll - I lose an hour of sleep tonite so I best catch up on it by going to bed early.........LOL..........nah, I'm just getting old and sleep comes earlier!!!! LOL

Happy Scrappin!!!

February 7, 2008

You may ask why on earth I am posting at 12:15 a.m. - well, why not? When I didn't think things could go from bad to worse they did. I won't get into details but lets just say I am completely in shock and quite hurt from several events that happened today.

I will strictly be scrapping for my blog and whatever orders I have - making sketches, doing a layout of the sketch and posting them for my enjoyment.

So, I posted earlier (well yesterday technically) that I finished the baby boardbook and took it to our customer. Well, here is the finished version with the journaling added:







Now I am really not sure why on earth that last picture is so huge - I resized 3 different times but it just doesn't want to shrink!!! OH well!!!

And then here is a quick card I made last night:




Over and out for now!!!

February 5, 2008

Wow, what a day I have had. I never realized how much of a pain in the rear teenagers were to raise!!! I've really had it easy for the most part but now that son of ours has decided to end the peace. Let's just say the Brooks household is in an uneasy state at this moment!!!!

Cait is doing good - thank the Lord!!! Causing no turmoil at this point which is definitely a blessing. She's been branching out and growing with her scrapping. She finished up - well almost finished up - this Bo Bunny Baby boardbook in Tinkerbell fashion as a special order we got last week when doing some business at the bank. We still need to get some personal info to add to the book for the recipient but for the most part it is done!!! Tell me what ya think!!!

This is the book closed:


Here is the 1st B:


Here is the A:


Here is the 2nd B:


Here is the Y:



Over and outtie for now!!!